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Over; more than enough; -- noting excess; as, a thing is too long, too short, or too wide; too high; too many; too much. His will, too strong to bend, too proud to learn. Cowley.

imp. of Take.

rations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work.

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

The part of a toolrest in which a cutting tool is clamped.

the part that supports a tool-post or a tool.

Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.

Empty. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Wyclif.

The reddish brown wood of an East Indian tree (Cedrela Toona) closely resembling the Spanish cedar; also. the tree itself.

Same as Toon.

To peep; to look narrowly. [Obs.] Latimer. For birds in bushes tooting. Spenser.

One who toots; one who plays upon a pipe or horn. B. Jonson.

Fig.: Taste; palate. These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth. Dryden.

Pain in a tooth or in the teeth; odontalgia. Toothache grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Ctenium Americanum) having a very pungent taste. -- Toothache tree. (Bot.) (a) The prickly ash. (b) A shrub of the genus Aralia (A. spinosa).

Any notodontian.

e has two or three strong teeth toward the end. or ts color is chocolate red. Called also toothbilled pigeon, and manu-mea.

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

Having teeth; furnished with teeth. "Ruby-lipped and toothed with pearl." Herrick.

Toothsome. [Obs.]